Monthly Archives: July 2008

Happy Birthday to the Christmas Card

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Here’s a little quiz:  what popular Christmas season staple will celebrate its’ 165th “birthday” later this year?  Give up?  That’d be the Christmas card .  History shows that Sir Henry Cole — then-director of the Victoria and Albert Museum in … Continue reading →

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Family Holiday Season Traditions

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How do you kick off your family’s holiday season?  Many families have an annual tradition that marks, for them, the beginning of the Christmas season.  A few weeks before Thanksgiving, my family and I start planning a trip to the … Continue reading →

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Christmas Greetings from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

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Republican, Democrat, or somewhere in between, no matter which candidate ends up being elected President of the United States this fall, there’s one thing we can be nearly positive about: the long-standing tradition of White House residents to send out … Continue reading →

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Professional Christmas Greetings

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Each and every year during the holiday season, mailmen all over the country and world are kept very busy delivering holiday greetings to everyone on your block (and the next block, and the next block…).  Typically, most households receive Christmas … Continue reading →

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An Unexpected Masterpiece

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Many things can be a masterpiece.  Perhaps your initial thought might be that the word “masterpiece” is being used in reference to a glorious piece of classical music being played by a major symphony orchestra or breathtaking oil painting that … Continue reading →

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Everyone’s Got a List

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What’s your pleasure?  By that I mean, what’s your favorite way of keeping track of who all you are sending out holiday greetings to? Some people use old-fashioned address books, some sync up their PDAs and use mail merge or … Continue reading →

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Computer Wizardry Improving Family Photos

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Did someone in your family blink just as the photo was taken? Now you can save the photo (and the day) by making small, subtle, but very effective edits to the digital photo. Professional photographers and ad agencies have been … Continue reading →

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Sending Out Smiles

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The next time you groan at the thought of all the work that goes into sending out your Christmas cards, thank your lucky stars you don’t have a Christmas card list of 3,000 people.  Not only that, but remember how … Continue reading →

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Creating Christmas Art

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No matter what kind of medium is your art of choice, artists all over the world have opportunities to enter their artwork in competitions to be featured on an organization’s Christmas card this coming holiday. Entries are already arriving at … Continue reading →

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Enjoy a Little Christmas in July

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We’re now nearly at the unofficial halfway mark for summertime: the Fourth of July. How are you holding up at home with the kids this summer? Even if your kids have been at summer camp a week here and a … Continue reading →

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